An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with retired educator A. Laidye Askew, conducted on 26 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Martha O'Brien at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room...

A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...

An advertisement in the form of a box shape, with two men inside, with acoustic speakers, on a crane lift at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1969. The companies listed are: WENO Radio 1430; Cozy Living Mobile Homes,...

One of the amusement rides at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1969. The fairgrounds, located approx. one mile south of downtown Nashville, opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...

One of the amusement rides at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1969. The fairgrounds, located approx. one mile south of downtown Nashville, opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...

Children enjoying one of the amusement rides at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1969. The fairgrounds, located approx. one mile south of downtown Nashville, opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a...

People being entertained on the amusement rides at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1970. The fairgrounds, located approx. one mile south of downtown Nashville, opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a...

One of the amusement rides at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, September, 1970. The fairgrounds, located approx. one mile south of downtown Nashville, opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...

An autographed hand-signed photograph of Joseph T. Macpherson, a Metropolitan Opera Company bass-baritone, from Amqui, Tennessee. This photograph is inscribed to his Nashville voice teacher Signor G. S. de Luca with the notation: "To Signor G. S....

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...

A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to...